History
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
Hardback
A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb.
Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
Hardback
A triptych of a single day revealing the history and foreshadowing the future of a complex and cosmopolitan city in a world at war.
Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea
Paperback
A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents.
Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Hardback
The dramatic story of Noor Inayat Khan, a secret agent for the British in occupied France.
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
Hardback
Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston’s magisterial history of modern Spain.